Out Of Over 4,000+ Fan Art Lightnings, Tetsuya Nomura Liked These Three The Most

As a tie-in for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, Square Enix and deviantART asked fans to create their own take on the Final Fantasy heroine. Tetsuya Nomura who created Lightning judged the contest and selected these three designs out of 4,655 total submissions.

“With one look I was hooked. The costume itself is sophisticated, and it’s also very well done as an illustration. The background that reminded me of the Japanese flag (Hinomaru) matched well with the piece and was beautiful. As an artist, when I look at different works of art, I think to myself ‘If it were up to me, I would do it differently,’ but that thought didn’t cross my mind once when I saw this picture,” Nomura commented.

“At first glance it looks like a CG, and it has a level of quality that makes it look like it was captured as a screenshot. While there were many heroic costumes for Lightning, I was drawn to the femininity of this costume and her hairstyle,” said Nomura.

“It’s wonderful as an illustration, but in addition to that, the artist drew in both the front and back views, so I felt the artist’s clear intent when they created this piece. The red and blue color scheme was very beautiful, too,” Nomura lauded.

I like the first better than Nomura’s designs ! It’s both more feminine & sexy !

Ric Vazquez

Agreed, screw the mona lisa XD

heero2001

I wish the pictures were a bit bigger. The thing that bothers me as a fan of Lightning is that non of the pictures really look like Lightning. I am an art dummy, but if Tetsuya says they are great then they must be.

notentirelythere

You can click on them from the mobile site to quickly get the full-size images.

Somber

All three are perfections! My personal fave is Wilhelmina from KarmaLizzard one.

I must be hard for Nomura to choose. Almost every deviations are very well-doned.

natchu96

They . . . all technically had belts on them didn’t they

Loli Summoner

Wow the first and last one are sick!

notentirelythere

Awwgeez, I love his words of appreciation for each piece. I’m getting second hand pride for dese peeps! And a little second hand flustered. Nomura-tan…

Those were all pretty awesome, glad to see the fandom can do really nice things when they aren’t at each others throats for enjoying different games.

Armane

I like the first one, even if it doesn’t look much like Lightning. The other two just look like a concept render and concept art for more Lightning Returns DLC costumes; I guess they must have captured something of the SquEnix spirit, but as fan art of Lightning they leave much to be desired.

Has he seen the porn of her? A lot of that is really good to. Its basically the only positive FF13 has brought to the table.

Yan Zhao

Now make those real costumes and give it to us as DLC.

new_tradition

Seriously, I hope that’s why this contest was held. It makes me hopeful they’ll consider creating more DLC garbs in the future. There’s so many better “throwback” costumes they could’ve used for Lightning then what they put out >3>

DRIG

first one looks like blade and soul inspired

Twilight Odin

Wilhelmina by Karma is my favourite.

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